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Reliable estimates of the unauthorized (undocumented) immigrant population for 2017–2020 rest on a handful of recurring data sources and methods: primarily the U.S. Census Bureau’s surveys (the Americ...
DHS "encounters" count events — every time a removable alien is stopped, apprehended, inadmissible at a port of entry, or expelled — not distinct people, so one person can generate multiple encounters...
distinguishes , s, and informal “self‑deportation” both legally and statistically: a removal is a government‑ordered, compulsory expulsion while returns are movements that are not based on an order of...
A reliable starting point for statistics on ’s immigration policies is official reporting—especially the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics and DHS end-of-year releases—which compile removals, returns...
DHS/CBP do not publish a single official “successful unauthorized entries” count for 2017–2020; instead they publish encounter and apprehension data from which outside analysts have estimated successf...
distinguishes ""—compulsory departures based on a removal order that carry administrative or criminal consequences for future reentry—from "returns," which are confirmed movements out of the that occu...
Public sources supplied here do not contain a clear, year-by-year table of formal removal orders under the Biden administration broken down into “criminal” versus “non‑criminal” grounds, so a precise ...
The available sources show that , with clear year-to-year declines between 2018 and 2020 and a partial rebound by fiscal 2021; combining the documented tallies for fiscal 2018–2021 yields roughly , wh...